Sources and Acknowledgements for Kickstarter Video

The Kickstarter video for How Comics Were Made draws from the following sources. (Visit the Kickstarter campaign.)

Cartoonists

Thank you to Georgia Dunn, Will Henry, Lynn Johnston, and Meg Nash for permission to include their art and materials in the video.

Photos

• Nina E. Allender, photographic service Harris & Ewing, c. 1915. Via Records of the National Woman’s Party (Library of Congress). National Woman’s Party Records, Group II, Container II:274, Folder: Individual Photographs Nos. 1-17 “A.” (Public domain: term of copyright expired.)
• Milt Caniff, photographer and source unknown, 1950s. Image via the Milton Caniff Collection, The Ohio State University, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum. (Copyright status unknown after due diligence.)
• George Herriman, photographer and source unknown, 1900s. Image via the International Museum of Cartoon Art (IMCA) Collection and Records, The Ohio State University, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum. (Copyright status unknown after due diligence.)
• “Making of a ‘Funny,’” Popular Science article, June 1940. Article by Edward W. Murtfeldt; photographer uncredited. (Public domain: failure to renew copyright.)
• Winsor McCay, Bain News Service, 1908. From the George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Finding details: LC-DIG-ggbain-02006 DLC (digital file from original neg). (Public domain: term of copyright expired.)
• New York Times production photos, photographer Marjory Collins, 1942. From a large collection via the Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information photograph collection (Library of Congress). Use https://www.loc.gov/search/?q=new+york+times+collins to find images. (Public domain: U.S. government owned.)
• Theodore Dudley “Red” Saunders, his wife Ella, their children, and their dog; photographer Jack Delano, April 1942. Via the Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information photograph collection (Library of Congress). Finding details: LC-USW3- 001482-D [P&P] LOT 192 (corresponding photographic print) fsa 8d03744 (Public domain: U.S. government owned.)
• Charles Schulz, photographer Jim Hansen for LOOK magazine, 1958. (Public domain: copyright transferred to the United States.)
• Sydney, Australia, stereotyping department, 1962. (Public domain: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International; credited to StVincent24a.)

Book pages and video stills

• Encyclopedia Britannica Films, Inc., Newspaper Story, 1950. (Public domain: asserted by Internet Archive.)
• Horan Engraving Co., The Art And Technique of Photo-Engraving, 1952. (Public domain: failure to renew copyright.) Book and movie (Public domain: failure to renew copyright.)
• “How Cartoons Are Syndicated,” Popular Mechanics , no byline, March 1926. (Public domain: term of copyright expired.)
• Indian Film Co., From Trees to Tribunes, c. 1931. (Public domain: failure to renew copyright.)
• Los Angeles Times, A Newspaper Serves its Community, 1959. (Copyright status unknown after due diligence.)

Other materials

Other materials appear in the video in the form of printing artifacts and copyright is retained by their respective owners. These images are used here for historical and critical purposes.

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